78 Web Content Quotes
Following is our list of web content quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about web design.
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Famous Web Content Quotes
Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer. — Jeffrey Zeldman
Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop. — Jakob Nielsen
The Internet is all about accessing entertainment. — Kim Dotcom
Domain names and websites are Internet real estate. — Marc Ostrofsky
The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect. — Tim Berners-Lee
Website will not require me to point and click and drag and search. — Jensen Huang
Web programming is the science of coming up with increasingly complicated ways of concatenating strings. — Greg Brockman
In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it. — Tim Berners-Lee
Instead of one-way interruption, Web marketing is about delivering useful content at just the right moment that a buyer needs it. — David Meerman Scott
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. — Dennis Ritchie
The internet is the new battleground of earth, the wild west, the place of truth and opportunity. — Andrew Tate
The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy. — Tim Berners-Lee
One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data. — Jared Sandberg
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. — Tim Berners-Lee
The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society. — Mike Fitzpatrick
Short Web Content Quotes
- A bad website is like a grumpy salesperson. — Jakob Nielsen
- SEO success comes to marketers who strive for stellar content and an impeccable user experience. — Brian Dean
- Web analytics is a fire extinguisher. Your website is on fire and you're burning cash. — Jim Sterne
- The internet is an amazing medium for languages. — David Crystal
- You affect the world by what you browse. — Tim Berners-Lee
- The future of content marketing is in your hands. — David Hahn
- Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent. — Todd Gitlin
- In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay. — David Tang
- SEO isn’t about content creation. It’s about content promotion. — Brian Dean
- The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else. — Andy Dick
Web Page Quotes
In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin. — Michael Shermer
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page. — William J. Clinton
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist. — Steven Pinker
We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages. — Sergey Brin
Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world. — Clifford Stoll
I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers. — Cliff Stearns
Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the DMV. — Dave Barry
People are only concerned about the next party, meeting up for casual sex, finding a job as a Web page designer, or getting a new apartment. — John C. Dvorak
Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, been talking to my cat on the Internet. — William J. Clinton
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame. — MG Siriam
Web Design Quotes
It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good. — Paula Scher
Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries. — Neville Brody
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness. — Massimo Vignelli
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another. — Chip Kidd
Websites promote you 24/7: No employee will do that. — Paul Cookson
Our weavings in the cosmic web are not self-contained. Rather, they are part of the design of our collective humanity. — Lisa Hunt
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores. — Chip Kidd
I love the fact that I work with everything that has to do with the brand, the product, the environment, the online, the architecture, the web design, because I am somebody that loves making things, making experiences, creating things that people love to engage with. — Christopher Bailey
The usability tests we have conducted during the last year have shown an increasing reluctance among users to accept innovations in Web design. The prevailing attitude is to request designs that are similar to everything else people see on the Web. — Jakob Nielsen
Great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine. — Paul Cookson
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More Web Content Quotes
Today's marketing success comes from self-publishing web content that people want to share. It's not about gimmicks. It's not about paying an agency to interrupt others. — David Meerman Scott
Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity. — Jeffrey Zeldman
Content is the currency of the social web and sharing that content is the catalyst to new relationships and business benefits. — Mark Schaefer
Content is anything that adds value to the reader's life. — Avinash Kaushik
What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes. — Ted Nelson
Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized. — Dhani Harrison
We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion. — Nick Denton
I cant predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video. — Salar Kamangar
For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser. — Mike Davidson
Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat. — Mike Davidson
I wish more of the web had stayed nonprofit. But the advertising model took over and I think has delivered us to where we are, along with the development of content, which is designed to do nothing else but make you click on it or share it. And I think it's kind of a low goal for content, and I think that's taken us to our current abyss. — Tim Wu
HuffPost serves as a starter page for news consumers, a place to find, and be directed to, the best content available on the Web. We consistently link out directly to other sites - often from our top-of-the-page headline. — Arianna Huffington
I don't subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn't dabble in television, web content, or even comic books... — Adi Shankar
Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support. — Matt Nix
To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. The web model is just so much more complicated, and involves this third party of advertisers, and all these other sources of revenue that are sort of provisional, but haven't been proven yet. — Dave Eggers
The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space. — Tim Berners-Lee
An electronic paper has infinite space because you can bring forth as much content as a reader wants. And the resolution of ads is very high. And when you touch the ad you can interact with the advertiser and the paper will take you to the advertiser's Web site and you can get more information. So ideally there should be a better connection between the ads you're shown and what you're actually interested in. — Russ Wilcox
Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it. — Jamais Cascio
IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators. — Paul Thurrott
Ive made sure to always update my web properties constantly - Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, my Hypebeast blog making sure I divided content across all of them to keep each outlet fresh to keep people coming back. — Theophilus London
If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone. — Vinton Cerf
There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity. — John Doerr
The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content. — John Doerr
I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser. — Robert Cailliau
On the Web you have to sum up what your piece of content is in one link or nobody is going to watch it. That's the same thing I've been hearing from TV executives - is we need a program that you can have on the side of a bus and someone can watch it go by and get what the show is and want to watch it. — Ricky Van Veen
How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline. — Marvin J. Ashton
With the support of our vibrant web developer community and dedicated partners, our goal is to level the playing field and usher in an explosion of content and services that will meet the diverse needs of the next two billion people online. — Gary Kovacs
Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads. — Nick Denton
Every page of content you've created could be the first interaction with your web site.Think of every page as a home page. — Jay Baer
The world needs sustainable, profitable, vibrant content companies staffed by dedicated professionals; especially content for people that grew up on the web, whose entertainment and news interests are largely neglected by television and newspapers. — Jonah Peretti
I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn. — Margaret Fuller
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